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Artist: Wayne Ensrud
Title: Manhattan From Brooklyn Bridge
Year: 1980
Medium: Lithograph, Signed and numbered in Pencil
Edition: 300, AP 42/45
Paper Size: 27" x 37"
Frame: 37" x 46"
In 1975 Wayne Ensrud was invited to be the
first American painter to exhibit at the French Institute Gallery,
N.YC., where he exhibited watercolors of the Bordeaux chateaux
and wineyards. His renown in the wine world has led to his designing
wine menus and posters for some of New York's finest French
Restaurants, including Lutece, Chez Pascal and Residence. In
the New York area Ensrud has received commissions to design
seven life sized etched mirrors and three seven-foot canvases
for the elegant restaurant Le Premier and also an engraved lucite
wall for the famous restaurant Nanni II Valletto.
Wayne Ensrud was born in Minnesota where he
received his BFA from the Minneapolis Institute of Art. As a
student he met Oskar Kokoschka, the artist-in-residence at the
Institute, who profoundly influenced Ensrud's work and has remained
his friend and mentor ever since.
When Pablo Casals conducted his Master Class
Series at Berkeley. Wayne Ensrud had the honor ot being invited
to execute drawings of the great cellist during those sessions.
and this year when the New York Chamber Society celebrated its
10th anniversary.Ensrud was asked to sit in on rehearsals and
sketch the world famous violinists ltzhak Perlman and Pinchas
Zukerman. Actress Jayne Mansfield, novelist Alex Waugh, wine
connoisseur Alexis Lichine are among others who have been portrayed
by Ensrud.
Mr. Ensrud has been a free-lance art director
and animator for ABC, CBS, and IRM IBM contracted him to he
the series, "Computer and the Mind of Man", which has been translated
into 18 languages and won several international awards. For
ABC he created the film animations for the Gemini Space Programs.
He taught film animation at Pratt Institute for tour years.
Ensrud was Art Director at the University of California at Berkeley
for the Department of Motion Pictures and Television and he
was Executive Art Director of Channel 13-TV, New York City.
Mr. Ensrud has art directed over 30 films and lust completed
a film for television starring Richard Basehart. He has illustrated
the writings of Odgen Nash, John O'Hara, and John Fowles for
Holiday magazine and also illustrates for other magazines such
as Venture, Vintage and Gourmet.
Mr. Ensrud was artist-in-residence at Simon's
Rock Early College in the Berkshires this past year and has
been invited to be a guest teacher of Landscape Painting at
that college for the past three summers. He is presently teaching
at the Cumberland School, Great Neck, New York.
Ensrud's individuality is positive, refreshing
and clearly definitive. His subject matter is as varied as his
moods whether he is doing landscape, seascape, or portraiture,
an impression of a place he has seen or someth,ing he feels.
Combined in his work is an explosive, versatile, extremely skillful
use of color, varied emotional tensions and an uninhibited creative
imagination. His best work is quite free, happy and not labored
or overworked. He creates a moving, beautiful, sometimes violent
impression. Ensrud's painting are distinguished by his luminous
use of color and intensity. They are life affirmative, a celebration
of being. Ensrud continues to believe that it is the artistic
responsibility to reveal through color the truth and spirit
in every form.
-Recently completed wall mural of Paris for the New
York restaurant Larre
-Commissioned to design tbe poster for the award-winning jazz
film "The Last of the Blue Devils" (In conjunction with Newport
Jazz Festival 1980)
- Designed poster for Avery Fischer award winning classical
pianst Richard Gcode
-Had the honor of opening the season in Newport with a one-person
show at
-Recently begun a series of portraits of living jazz immortals
such as Count Basie, and George Shearing. Up- coming: Carmen
McRae and Benny Goodman
ONE-MAN SHOWS
Galerie Esmeralda, Paris
Galleria Piero, Florence
Fine Gallery, San Francisco
Modern Masters Gallery, New York City
Automation House. New York City
The Coffee House Club, New York City
Sherry-Lehman, New York City
French Institute Gallery, New York City
Maas Brothers, St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida
Peach Tree Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Gallery of Art, Panama City. Florida
New Library. South Hill, Virginia
Bristol Art Museum, Rhode Island
Simons Rock College
Loring Gallery, New York City
GROUP SHOWS
Minneapolis Museum of Art
Oakland Art Museum, California
National Arts Club, New York City
Five Uptown Independent Artists, New York City
Eric Schindler Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
Meyers Gallery, Chevy Chase. Maryland
Hailer Gallery, New York City
Five Uptown Independent Artists, Boston
Venable-Neslage Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Gallery 306, Philadelphia
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Burgess Meredith
Serge Sabarsky
Mrs. Wirt Morton
Governor of Trinidad
Mr. and Mrs. Vladimir Ossipoff
Sam Aaron
Alec Waugh
Mr. and Mrs. John Farrar
Alexis Lichine
Annie Knize
Contessa Borghese
Alice Aboody
Mr. and Mrs. Lou Friedland
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Berger
Pinchas Zukerman
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